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• Dame Cath and Sir Greg of Māpua pua

  Dame Cath gets a right royal roasting for knighting ‘Sir Greg’ A mock knighthood of Māpua’s Greg Olsen at a historic gathering in Golden Bay to celebrate the...

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• Marlborough Sounds Whaling

  For nearly 140 years, whales on their annual migration north were spotted by whalers from hilltop lookouts at the entrance to Tory Channel. Whale chasing boats then raced out to harpoon them...

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• Te Awatea Hou

  Waitangi Day in 1990 was special, as it was the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. The largest gathering ever seen of Māori tribal war canoes (waka...

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• Plane crash at Tākaka

  Max Heath survived World War II as a fighter pilot, came home to Tākaka and not long after, was killed in a plane crash.1 The 25-year-old warrant officer from...

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• Women artists

  FRANK, Rosaline (1864-1954) Rosaline Margaret Frank (or Rose Frank) was one of New Zealand's first professional women photographers, and the first in Nelson. She was born on 21 December...

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